A combination of well placed widgets, sharp use of Objectdock, text shortcuts, and an adorable wallpaper make this week's featured desktop worth duplicating. Reader M. Adams built this two-toned setup with no icons on the desktop and an auto-hidden taskbar to keep organized and have a desktop that was a joy to look at even when he wasn't using the system.

This desktop was particularly nice because of the two-toned layout and how cleanly everything is laid out. You can still open up tons of windows over everything—or at least over the right side—and still get work done without worrying about easily launching applications or getting to the shortcuts on the left.

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Do you have a good-looking, functional desktop that you want to see featured here? Submit it—along with where you got the wallpaper, skins, and geeklets—to us for review. We have two different ways you can share it with us:

Linux, Mac, Windows, all are welcome. Whatever you choose to use, include a description of how you made your desktop when you send it in. Without that, we can't tell others how to make it for themselves so they can be featured too!